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Sinking to new depths in the mile below club

NEVER mind the mile high club. The latest adventure for well-heeled travellers seeking the ultimate romantic destination is the mile below club - with membership restricted to passengers in private luxury submarines.

Manufacturers of some of the world's most exclusive underwater conveyances are boasting of the sexual possibilities of submersible cabins equipped with "large panoramic viewports" that allow exhibitionists to indulge their fantasies in front of an audience of dolphins and lobsters.

Tucked away in a routine interview with the Bloomberg news agency last week was a startling claim by one of the submarine world's best known designers that some of his clients may be more interested in what goes on inside the sub than the view through the acrylic portholes.

According to Bloomberg, Hervé Jaubert, a former French navy commando who founded Exomos, a Dubai-based company that builds personal submarines, "says he has clients who wrestle with how to conduct